Not all of them are here - could there be others? Or is this sprite meant to fool us all?
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irrelephantDec 19 '12 at 10:48

@irrelephant you can see this in stack overflow not in meta ... check edited answer ]
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NullPoiиteяDec 19 '12 at 10:58

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Yes, but for example the "n00b Hat" in Yannis' answer is not on this sprite.
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irrelephantDec 19 '12 at 11:00

@irrelephant than it might possible they have either modified or have other image
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NullPoiиteяDec 19 '12 at 11:03

If they knew that we would look in the sprite image (we're programmers), then they wouldn't have put any secrets in there. :)
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irrelephantDec 19 '12 at 11:04

fyi those are copyrighted images which SE probably doesn't have the rights to use. Obviously there won't be any trouble though.
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PubbyDec 19 '12 at 11:32

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Hint: the secret hats are not in that sprite. They have their own images. I didn't look right through it, but I think that the troll etc. are just having fun trying to mislead you.
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Chris MorganDec 19 '12 at 20:44

I saw that bowtie when I looked at the Winter Bash Site, seems to be very common. So an easy to get sectret hat, makes the users want to collect more secret hats, and maybe even leads them to do random crazy stuff :) so yes,I guess it will be a bit of madness. I am actually now trying to get a secret hat, by using all available characters in a comment, up to the last one. I will let you know if it worked and I got the USE ALL CHARACTERS IN A COMMENT hat. Unfortunately it takes a while to type all that, but I am there soon.That would really be a creative secret hat, that maybe nobody discovers!
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SwissCoderDec 19 '12 at 4:44